Sunday, May 25, 2008

Memorial Day - In Honor of Our Fallen

10. Fort Sumter National MonumentAnnual visitors: 923,061History: Fort Sumpter in South Carolina was the site of the first shots of the Civil War.

9. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military ParkAnnual visitors: 787,831History: The park commemorating some of the hardest fighting of the Civil War lays in both Georgia and Tennessee.

8. Minute Man National Historical ParkAnnual visitors: 1,093,352History: This site in Massachusetts commemorates the 1775 battle at Lexington and Concord that opened the American Revolution.

7. Valley Forge National Historical ParkAnnual visitors: 1,230,618History: Twelve thousand soldiers in George Washington's Continental Army spent a brutal winter at this site in Pennsylvania.

6. USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl HarborAnnual visitors: 1,539,986History: A trickle of oil still leaks from the sunken battleship that lies beneath this memorial in Hawaii. The Japanese attack killed 1,177 crew members.

5. Gettysburg National Military ParkAnnual visitors: 1,702,764History: President Abraham Lincoln immortalized the site of the Civil War's bloodiest battle as the "final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live."

4. Korean War Veterans MemorialAnnual visitors: 3,208,690History: Located along the National Mall in Washington D.C., the memorial consists of 19 statues of soldiers, a wall listing nations that contributed to the war, and a "Pool of Remembrance."

3. Vietnam Veterans MemorialAnnual visitors: 3,538,479History: The V-shaped granite wall inscribed with American soldiers who died in the war was designed in 1981 by Maya Lin, an undergraduate student at Yale.

2. World War II MemorialAnnual visitors: 3,547,583History: Featuring a semicircle of pillars representing America's states in 1945, this memorial opened in 2004 along the National Mall.

1. Arlington National CemeteryAnnual visitors: 4,000,000History: More than 290,000 veterans and casualties of American wars are buried at this site in Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C.

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